With two significant stable releases happening soon (Velocity 1.5 and
VelocityTools 1.3), i'd like to nail down the distribution directory
structure now. Changing these things is a pain due to mirroring,
various link locations and such. I'd rather we get it straight and
stick to it.
Rather than re-hash what's currently out there (which isn't even
totally sync'd with people.apache.org as i write) and our various
understandings of how it should be, i'd like to kick the discussion
off with a proposed structure.
under /dist/velocity, i propose we continue to keep our KEYS file and
directories for engine and tools. directly under those directories,
we should have folders named after the most recent stable/production
release and--if one exists--a more recent unstable/beta release.
Given our current releases, this would look like:
dist/velocity/
KEYS
engine/
1.4/
1.5-beta2/
tools
1.2/
1.3-rc1/
Since all releases on dist are automatically archived, we should not
keep more than one stable and one unstable release for each branch of
a project. So each time there is a stable/production release, both
the old stable release and whatever beta/rc/alpha preceded the new
stable release should be deleted.
The "current" symlinks VelocityTools has [had in the past] are a
debatable issue. Personally, they're a pain to update, and i suspect
they're not even an ASF endorsed procedure. Unless someone protests,
i'm going to remove them.
If you like this, feel free to give a +1. If you don't please speak
up soon, so i can get things moved around appropriately and update all
our download links accordingly soon. :) If i don't hear anything on
this by Monday afternoon (PST), i'll get started. though, i may do it
earlier if everyone seems to be on board before then. :)
so, yeah, feedback is welcome!
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